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Baby Planning

Fertility Journey Advice From an Interfaith Couple

By Rabbi Malka Packer-Monroe

If you are having difficulty trying to conceive, you are not alone.  After a year of dreaming, praying...

Babies, Baby Planning, Pregnancy

baby boy

A Jewish Ukrainian Catholic Family’s Pandemic Bris

By Renata Breytman Kersus

An interfaith brit milah (bris) in a pandemic… sounds doable, right?  Except for...

Babies, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, Bris, Jewish Catholic Relationships, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Conversation Starters: How to Raise Future Kids Religiously

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

If you and your partner from another faith are thinking about having kids, deciding how to raise them religiously,...

Baby Planning, Marriage, Pregnancy, Relationships

newlyweds

What Happens to Ritual Between Marriage and Babies?

By Kristin Eriko Posner

From my conversion to our Japanese and Jewish wedding to my bat mitzvah at 33, I’ve been fortunate to have celebrated...

Baby Planning, Marriage, Newlywed, Religion, Spirituality

couple talking

The Newlywed Question You’re Not Ready For

By Laura Drescher

“So, are you thinking about kids?” The inevitable question after the wedding. I’ve gotten this question a few...

Baby Planning, Marriage, Newlywed, Pregnancy

Brit Bat: Birth Ceremonies for Girls

By 18Doors

Available in on-screen reading friendly (PDF) and printer-friendly, downloadable (PDF) versions. For more booklets,...

Babies, Baby Naming, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, Booklets

We Made Our Bris Inclusive. Here’s How.

By Sarah Rizzo

At just nine weeks pregnant, my doctor ran a blood test and we waited on the results, full of anticipation....

Babies, Baby Naming, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, Bris

new father with baby

How We Met…Our Baby

By Craig Cohen

We each have our own story about when we saw, held or heard our children for the first time and we all arrived...

Adoption, Babies, Baby Planning, Fatherhood, New Parents

Traditions of a Jewish Baby Naming

By Lindsey Silken

Lifecycle events can feel like giant OMG moments, but we’re here to help! InterfaithFamily has partnered...

Babies, Baby Naming, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony

Jewish Genetic Diseases: Interfaith Doesn’t Equal Immunity

By April Baskin

Thanks to various Jewish ad campaigns and informational events, I know the big, scary Jewish genetics statistic:...

Baby Planning, Identity, Religion

I'm doing it for me.

By Anne Goodman

In the middle of the grueling Intro to Judaism class, I decided to devote yet more time to the synagogue and...

Baby Planning, Baby Toolbox, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Getting a Hebrew Name

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

As our booklet on baby girl naming ceremonies explains, names are the beginning of identity formation. Choosing...

Baby Planning

How Two Baby Naming Ceremonies Helped a Jew-By-Choice Come to Terms With Her Catholic Parents

By Marina Williams

I am a Jew-by-choice. I always felt drawn to Judaism and it was no surprise to anyone when I started dating...

Baby Naming, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, Conversion, Family, Grandparents, New Parents, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Stories, Pregnancy Stories

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Infertility and Spirituality

By Chana-Esther Dayan

The first time I wrote about pregnancy, my husband and I had been trying to conceive for only a few months....

Baby Planning, Pregnancy Loss, Pregnancy Stories

We Want to Get WHAT?

By Chana-Esther Dayan

When my husband and I got together we agreed that kids weren’t a priority. We wanted to live our lives...

Baby Planning

baby with toy

The Lifecycle of an Interfaith Relationship: Having a Baby

By S. Courtney Nathan

201 Becoming pregnant can be the most wonderful, awe-inspiring thing that ever happens to you. A new life...

Babies, Baby Planning, Birth Ceremony, New Parents, Newlywed, Parenting Tips and Advice, Pregnancy, Relationships

Interfaith Infertility Issues

By Ellen Glazer

445 May 2004 Several years ago, I led a support group for women experiencing infertility. As often happened...

Adoption, Baby Planning, Pregnancy

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